Andrew Watson has had a long and diverse work experience. Andrew started their career as an IT Support Engineer at Duraflex Ltd in 1988, and later became the IT Operations Manager at Caradon in 1996. Andrew then joined PNL as the IT Network Support Manager in 1999, where they led a team of IT staff. After leaving PNL, Andrew worked at MidlandHR, first as an IT Manager from 2004 to 2005, and then as the Group IT Manager from 2005 to 2006. Andrew then worked at Zeda Ltd as a Service Manager from 2006 to 2008. Andrew's next role was with MidlandHR again, where they held a variety of positions, including Technical Consultancy Manager from 2008 to 2011, Director of IT from 2011 to 2015, and Chief Services Officer from 2015 to 2016. Following this, they worked at DNV GL as the Head of Solutions Operations from 2017 to 2018. Currently, Andrew is serving as the Chief Technology Officer at MHR, where they have been since 2018.
Andrew Watson attended Bishops Cleeve Comprehensive from 1981 to 1987. In 2009, they also had some educational involvement at Cranfield School of Management, although the specific degree obtained during that time is unknown. From 2015 to 2016, Andrew Watson pursued a General Management Program at Cranfield School of Management, focusing on Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services.
MHR
MHR supports organisations wanting to strengthen their business resilience and reduce their operational complexity with the easiest to integrate, adopt and use, secure, cloud-based HR, payroll and finance systems available. Over 1300 customers across the private and public sector have everything they need to address their people and planning needs across HR, talent management and learning, payroll, workforce management, analytics and reporting, enterprise planning, finance and accounting, and financial consolidation. With a suite of innovative software solutions, built on the latest technologies and utilising their extensive partnership network, MHR gives a single joined up view across all HR, payroll and finance, helping customers to make data-driven decisions. We offer flexible end-to-end support and expertise, partnering with customers to deliver complete solutions to meet their changing business objectives. Based in Nottinghamshire, MHR is a financially independent, privately-owned UK business with a track record of innovation in HR and payroll since 1984. We manage 2000+ payrolls and make £9billion of payments per annum.